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* added all necessary includes - fixed build/include_what_you_use error

* fixed the order of includes (build/include_order)

* always save the score of the first round in early stopping

fix #1971

* avoid using std::log on non-positive numbers

* remove unnecessary changes

* add tests

* Update test_sklearn.py

* enhanced tests

* fix RF's bugs

* fix tests

* rollback num_iterations

* fix a bug and reduce memory costs

* reduce memory cost

* fix ndcg consistency.

* more stable sorts

* Update gbdt_model_text.cpp

* Update dataset.cpp

* Update gbdt_model_text.cpp

* average predictions for constant features

* fix possible numerical issues in std::log.

* fix pylint

* fix bugs in c_api

* fix styles

* clean code for multi class

* rewrite test

* fix pylint

* skip test_constant_features

* refine test

* fix tests

* fix tests

* update FAQ

* fix test

* Update FAQ.rst

* bring consistency and clearness into early_stopping_rounds desc, metric desc and implementation

* hotfix

* hotfix

* used NDCG as default metric for lambdarank task

* fixed missed methods at ReadTheDocs and changed default eval_metric

* leaved only unique metrics

* fixed comment

* fix include

* reduce dependency on header file

* fix build

* [WIP] refine config

* [wip] ready for the auto code generate

* auto generate config codes

* use with to open file

* fix bug

* fix pylint

* fix bug

* fix pylint

* fix bugs.

* tmp for failed test.

* fix tests.

* added nthreads alias

* added new aliases from new config.h

* fixed duplicated alias

* refactored parameter_generator.py

* added new aliases from config.h and removed remaining old names

* fix bugs & some miss alias

* added aliases

* add more descriptions.

* add comment.

* implement boost_from_average by default for binary objective

* include sigmoid_ parameter in binary regression boost_from_average

* decode error description

* added break line char in log massages

* fix the name of custom objective function

* fix multi-class alias

* Update GPU-Windows.rst

* added new aliases for regression_l2 to docs

* fixed new line

* fixed tweedie_variance_power description

* moved gamma and tweedie metrics to other regression metrics

* added new aliases for l2 to docs

* added new alias for l1 to docs

* added new alias for log loss to docs

* added new aliases for multiclass to docs

* added description for default value of metric param

* fixed link to poisson regression and capitalized regressions' names

* removed unused earlier alias type for gamma deviance

* added aliases for multiclass and multiclass_ova

* updated Quick-Start.rst according to Parameters.rst

* add quantile metric.

* first draft.

* add "sqrt" transform in regression objective function.

* fix a bug.

* update parameter doc

* fix doc

* Fix coding style (#969)

Function names must be in the "Pascal Case" style.

* check_elements_interval_closed to CheckElementsIntervalClosed

* obtain_min_max_sum to ObtainMinMaxSum

* Change functions in common.h into template functions (#969)

* CheckElementsIntervalClosed

* ObtainMinMaxSum

These two functions were changed into template functions.

* Remove an unpreferable overload

* remove an overload of the function ObtainMinMaxSum

* Use stringstream to format T type

Function names must be in the "Pascal Case" style.

* check_elements_interval_closed to CheckElementsIntervalClosed

* obtain_min_max_sum to ObtainMinMaxSum

* Attempt to address issue #807 Poisson regression objective.

* Fix coding style.

* Added label non-negative safety check.

* Created objectives and metrics xentropy and xentropy1

* Some coment and code cleanup.

* Added Kullback-Leibler version of metric. Changed some warning messages.

* Fixed sign error in KL-divergence calc.

* Removed __PRETTY_FUNCTION__.

* Fixed better name for alternative xentropy parameterization.
Documented details on the objectives / metrics in code comments.

* Common code for label interval checks. Cleanups.

* Use common utility for various weight property checks.

* Added code for customizable initial average to boost from.

* Fixed spelling error in aliases.

* Fixed nullptr check error in custom average.

* Added network code for customized init score.

* Restructured so that "standard" and "custom" init auto scores share aux.
function.

* Updated name for aux. automatic initial score fetcher.